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May 31, 2025 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Mike Thorn - Horror Workshop Description “To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
“The horror tale lives most naturally at that connection point between the conscious and the subconscious, the place where both image and allegory occur most naturally and with the most devastating effect.”
This workshop invites participants to define “horror”: not only what it is, but what it can do. The session incorporates insights and excerpts from major horror writers to animate conversations about genre philosophy, history, subgenres, craft, and technique (especially regarding ideation, outlining, atmosphere, metaphor, point-of-view, character-writing, and editing). We will close the workshop with a guided writing exercise and follow-up conversation. This interactive, discussion-based workshop is tailored to accommodate writers at all levels of interest and experience. |
WordSpring 2025 WorkshopBio
Mike Thorn (Fredericton, NB) is a fiction writer and film critic. He is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. His stories have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and podcasts, including Vastarien, NoSleep, and Tales to Terrify. His criticism has been published in American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, MUBI Notebook, The Film Stage, and elsewhere. He is a SSHRC-funded doctoral candidate in the Department of English (Creative Writing) at the University of New Brunswick, and he co-hosts the writing- themed podcast Craftwork with Miriam Richer. Visit his website: mikethornwrites.com.
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